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General Site Info => General Discussion => Topic started by: Blazin on September 26, 2010, 10:42:54 pm
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And I wonder why I find screw ups on fairly new rigs! ::)
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/23/chrysler-auto-workers-caught-camera-drinking-beer-smoking-pot-lunch-break/?test=latestnews
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They almost made that clip comical, if it wasn't for the fact I was paying their wages......
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"Dozens of autoworkers in Detroit were caught on camera drinking beer and smoking marijuana before heading to work at the Chrysler plant that President Obama praised in a speech just two months ago."
thats all i had to read and made me laugh
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MZWPCrI4RU
Not as funny, really just ridiculous.
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i wonder if the UAW has it in their contracts that they can't be drug tested randomly, and if not, there is probably something in their that if they test positive for drugs....well, nothing can be done. Aren't unions great for Americans?
Their supervisors 'have' to smell alcohol on their breath. But, they are probably powerless to do anything.
If i did that on my job, it would take about 2 seconds for me to be in the unemployment line.
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There are two unions where I work. The employees worth having do not need a union and the ones that are worthless are impossible to get rid of. When times get rough we're forced to lay off by seniority. Some talented employees get the boot and the ones with seniority who have become complacent struggle to do the job. They tie our hands--not even allowing management to choose who works there and then blame management for everything. How can you blame management when unions take away their right to manage? The guys in that article probably won't get any punishment. We sent a guy for a drug test and he gave them muddy water from the parking lot as a urine test. When the technician pointed out to him that this wasn't urine he refused to give a sample and left. He still kept his job.
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With our union people saythey don't do there job and just sit back and take our money and let others get fired. Well if that person didn't call off so much and do their job they would of been in trouble from the get go. Our union is kind of powerless but at the same time its weeding out the no goods and making room for newbies. One thing tho about admin in our contract they give us 15 sick days a year and if you use just 6 then your getting a write up but if you have bars like LT slt or higher you cannot call off 15 times or more however many sick days you have and not even get spoken to
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When I was still working at a aircraft maintenance facility, my manager would randomly test a person every three or four months off of my crew of 6-8 and I can tell you, that I know for a fact that a guy they never tested was using HARD drugs, we're not talking about a joint every now and then just a raging coke head. He would never randomly test that guy and when I brought it to his attention that the guy constantly smelled like alcohol he told me I should lay off of him because the guy has had a tough life. I personally am against drug testing in ANY job though, unless its safety critical(aircraft, hospitals, autos, trains etc). I don't think we need to drug test the guy who sweeps the floor, and mops the bathrooms, or the lawn mower mechanic.
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i am all for drug tests. of course, in my field, i am biased...i need to trust someone who may be backing me up. I need law-abiding people next to me on our side--we do take an oath to uphold the laws and constitution.
If I ever become a business owner, I'll definately have random drug tests, no matter what the job is. That in itself will weed many undesirables out. I like people to respect themselves more and others around them and to not have to resort to artificial means to create a high. I'm high on life everyday.
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"I want all of you to know, I will bet on the American worker any day of the week." he told the crowd.
"I wish they could see what I'm seeing in this plant and talk to the workers who are here, taking pride in building a world-class vehicle," Obama said
I think Obama is the one who looks stupid here. You have people all over the US doing this kind of stuff every day. The American car companies have failed to bring the masses of the US what they want and that is why everyone is buying foreign. If these companies need to take bail outs of billions of tax dollars then just let them fold. Not to insult any union workers but unions protect the lazy bums and reward them without recognizing people on an individual basis.
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well said, Vile.
I still buy American as much as possible. When Ford didn't ask for a penny, my wife, with my blessing, bought an escape. Engineering has gotten better and competitive recently. But videos like that make me wonder about quality assurance problems.
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Well looky what I found on a Dodge truck today at the shop. Truck has less than 5,000 miles on it, all original paint from the showroom. Got a light tap in the rear bumper, tweaked the chrome, and put a couple chips in the paint were it touched the rear quarter. Pulled the bumper off and found what I believe to be a factory repair where the spot welds didn't weld. So some half wit stuck a mig gun up in there and waved it around right before paint!
Here is what it should look like, the right side:
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q165/BlazinK30/Misc%20pictures/Dodgequality4.jpg)
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q165/BlazinK30/Misc%20pictures/Dodgequality2.jpg)
This is what the left side looks like:
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q165/BlazinK30/Misc%20pictures/Dodgequality3.jpg)
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q165/BlazinK30/Misc%20pictures/Dodgequality1.jpg)
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Just making the boogers stick together haha.
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Awesome :P
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the bad part is you can teach a monkey to mig lol
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Dang Blazin, THAT IS FREAKIN SWEET! And the welds are so pretty, too! Looks like alcohol was involved.... ;D
That looks like the kind of welds I make... I'm not worth a crap at welding and I'm using an old 220V stick welder with whatever sticks happen to be left. ;D
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And Chrysler wonders why they keep loosing market share. :D
I am guilty of owning a Dodge..i admit it..its a 77 and well i felt sorry for it. once i got passed all the p.o's jerry rigs and failed attempts at body work..i thought i had found more. No come to find out that was factory.
Dodge always had stout drive trains,but the truck around them has always been junk.
The auto unions are the ones who killed the American Auto manufacturing..yet they still act as if they are the saviors of the economy "Wake up America"
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Unions blow!
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I don't understand why more companies don't drug test more. It should be required when it could possibly/indirectly affect someone else's safety. I know a bunch of places down here don't or won't drug test.
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All I can say is I could weld 500 times better than that on my worst drunk!!!
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I might of mentioned this before but it shows this has been going on for awhile :)
Back in 88 my boss' daughter bought a new camaro from day 1 when you made a left turn it would make a rattling noise (sounded like the heat shield on the cat) Chevy had that car 4 times they could find nothing wrong with it. She got hit at the drivers door and it took out part of the quarter body shop cut it off and inside was a beer can (bud :) ) with a not on it "Bet ya it took you a long time to find this" Gm got involved car was put back together and no more rattling :) . GM took the beer can (not sure what they did with it) but the gave her the car plus all the money she put down and the loan payments she made.
Btw what is wrong with those welds ? I think the paint did them justice ;D
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Same theory as painting over a joint..the paint woks as a second weld. :D
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All I can say is I could weld 500 times better than that on my worst drunk!!!
lol. To me welding is just like billiards; the more you drink the better you are. And that is why they call it aiming fluid.
It's when you can't remember if you're solids or stripes or what you were going to weld that it's time to call it a day.
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Interesting story frogman.
My sister bought a Fiero in 1984. She had it for a while and then it caught on fire, GM fixed it, a few months later, she pulled it out of her garage and went to close the door, it caught on fire again, GM "fixed" it. A short while later she was on her way to work and sitting at the red light opposite of the dealership that fixed it she noticed smoke pouring out the back, she took a left and pulled straight into the service center lane, got out and told them this is yours as it was burning in their parking lot.
The ended up giving her a new Firebird.
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Isn't Fiero Italian for "fire"?